Age of Wushu is a free, action MMORPG based in an ancient Chinese world of kung fu. The game features eight different martial art schools to choose from, dazzling aerial duels, and a sophisticated system of combos and counters.

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Age of Wushu: Snail Games’ topnotch sandbox MMORPG that lets player become an aspiring Kung-Fu master and experience the captivating, oriental world of Ancient China. By combining revolutionary combat with beautiful renderings, players will master a variety of martial skills as they delve into a unique self-realization path to the pinnacle of power.

Players are given tons of freedom unparalleled in modern MMORPGs in their journey to master the ancient Chinese martial arts, to delve into their character's unique story, to face the consequences of every action, and to fulfill their destiny.

Key Features

Sophisticated, Revolutionary CombatThe challenging combat system offers a flashy visual feast: in essence, it boils down to utilizing countering combinations of Overt, Feint and Parry to strategically overcome your opponents. Experience dazzling aerial fights and graceful combo moves! Imagine fight & chase scenes in Hero or House of Flying Daggers: soar through the air with flight prowesswhile you skirmish all over the city.

An Alluring, Vivid WorldTraverse through cities with enchanted waterways and bridges, Imperial palaces of golden grandeur, tavern bustling with merchants and sinister alleyswith lurking black figures – immerse yourself in the most realistic and enchanted depiction of Ming Dynasty ever created. In the lawless world of Wuxia, we deliver classic architectures and breathtaking landscape straight into your view. Age of Wushu – a world filled with natural and human wonders.

Dynamic Encounters, Endless AdventuresEvents in Age of Wushu are not planned, but experienced. These experiences are mysterious and can occur without any warning. You could run into a bit of serendipity or find yourself in a bit of trouble. Some of them could confer a life-changing set of martial arts skills without the player having to lift a finger. Or you could wear yourself out, only to receive a reward as valuable as a simple stone.

The Choice is YoursThe game puts an emphasis on freestyle PvP and sandbox aspects by implementing ample related system: gratitude and revenge where the game makes sure you remember your killers, player/NPC affinity, random encounters, challenges & instances, secondary factions and an elaborate guild system that often require political choices in forging allegiances. With the addition of an expansive gathering\crafting system, you decide how to live in the lawless world of Jianghu. Become a successful merchant, a righteous constable or an outlaw that disregard all rules: the choice is always yours.

This will be my 3rd time writing a review for AoW. My first review I deleted myself because, well, I hit delete instead of edit, my bad- but I was goin to change it completely anyhow. So I rewrote it, and it became the #1 helpful negative review for a while(I'll get into why in a second), then I stopped playing for a while. And again I started playing again for another 3-4 months. Somewhere inbetween playing again and now my #1 negative review has "dissappeared". So here's a new one in two parts: one for the game, one for Snail Games USA. TL,DR version at bottom.

--------On the game itself.--------This game is like most F2P games--- F2P and P2W. Also lots and lots of grinding, or just pay for silver.In beta the tutorial, menus, actions, well almost everything were explained horribly and it wasn't just the translations. Even when I made a smurf character after the Winds of Destiny addition in Oct-14, it was still mostly the same. The cutscenes are still translated horribly, but usually makes for some funny reads.

Combat is based on ping, if you bought the latest cash shop set for 30$, and if you have the rare ultra-powerful ancinet move sets(you get them easily by paying players for them with silver). Last time I played everyone was in mostly the same 2-3 schools and used the same cash shop sets and/or ancient sets.The one thing I really like about this game was the random encounter system, where you can possibly get great skills and useful items for crafting by making npc's like or hate you . But you get the random encounters rarely if you don't pay for VIP. Graphics are alright, nothing too special. Music is ok for some area/scenes' songs and horrible for others. Flying skills can be fun but only half of them are really useful.Crafting mini games are ok, better than some mmo's.

--------Snail Games USA customer service horror story-------- I started playing AoW about 1-2 months before beta ended(I think in Feb/March 2013.) I ended up getting VIP about a week before release, and actually bought the Gamestop retail edition when it was officially released out of beta(April 2013). I have played AoW from roughly Mar-13 to 9-11-13 then from Feb-14to Nov-14, and had kept my VIP status 90-95% of the time, bought the retail edition, payed for in-game silver(from Snail's site), and was paying for cosmetic item/mount rentals. Since Mar 2013 to Sep 2013, I had purchased 2,150 gold from Snail's official site(using Zeevex cards), and I ended up(stupidly) spending 718$+ on 2,150 gold for in-game for cash shop items.

The little break from playing was because my account was frozen for no reason, for 1.5-2 months. I had set up a stall overnight(VIP only) an hour or less before server maintenence, with the contents worth I think over 3000+ Taels of item(most of the higher valued items I was selling were scripts, although I was also selling cash-shop gold items too.So I went to sleep, woke up the next day and tried to sign into my only character, and my account was frozen. So I check my Snail Passport, just a freeze notice. After many inquiries as to why, I finally get told I was "involved in illicit taels activities" about 2-3 weeks after being frozen(their old ticket system was being worked on in midst of all this). Then another 2-3 weeks go by and I get a reply, and I'm quoting my Snail Passport reply: "Greetings. We have checked your account (acc. name) in system. The query result inform that it invovle to trading illegal tales. We consider that the illegal taels amount is not too much. Offical decide to unfreeze for you. Please do not do that again. Thanks for support."I had ONLY ever topped up, purchased silver, and/or gold from SNAIL'S OFFICIAL SITE. I've always assumed somone who bought silver from a non-official source, bought the items off me in my offline stall, and I got punished as well. The worse part of it was that for the 1.5-2 months I was frozen I had VIP, cosmetic items, mounts, and a windrider that all went to waste, some of which I had just started the rental time. I was told in another ticket that they cannot and will not even give me the same items back. I played for about a week and was still mad at what happened and how they went about it, then i quit playing for about 4 months or so.

When I started playing again my plan was to try to play it 100% completely F2P. I did this for a while, but after being VIP for so long it just sucks playing it f2p. Almost every little thing in the game is pretty limited to free players, which is great to battle gold bots/etc, but if you start off as a f2p player it might be ok. But if you were VIP before but now now, you will hate it. I ended up having people in game buy it for me for in game silver for the last month or so I played in Oct 14.

-------------TL, DR ------------------AoW is a high-learning-curve, mediocre at best, usually confusing F2P and P2W mmorpg that is full of fetching/finding/grinding, repeating the same boring raids, laughing at the bad translations, and always waiting on the time-based rank+skill leveling system.The combat is useless unless you have good ping and you pay for the cash shop sets or a lot of in-game money for highly coveted rare skills from ancient sets. Not paying for VIP is very restrictive. Most the people playing are in the same few schools and use mostly the same sets and combos.

Honestly, do yourself a favor and just don't waste your time on this game.If you end up doing so, do not give them any money, for what happened to me and many, many, others, could happen to you.

I was completely stupid and spent 700$ while wasting a year+half of my time so you didn't have to.

Im still playing. Only issue i have is the extreame cost for items people sell in market. Keeping the people who have alot of money TOP in the rankings. If it was not so pay2win i would like it even more.

Stay VERY far away from this game if you don't have a large wallet that you don't care if it gets smaller.

Might seem fun, but what you're actually getting is a poorly-translated, half-baked Chinese grinder with a few open-world elements, most of them are broken or missing. The biggest offender is their "Tornado" weather event which allows you to get some pretty good skills, but the mechanics are very broken both in the tornados themselves AND the npcs you must fight during it to earn a small amount of the items needed to earn it.

Brought up a lot of the points to GMs over my 2 months playing this game, all I heard was "I'll tell a developer about it" which is Snail speak for "♥♥♥♥ you."

If the broken, missing, and poorly translated elements don't persuade you from staying very far away, this game is HEAVILY reliant on Pay-To-Win, and they can't even do THAT right.

VERY FEW martial arts "skill sets" you can earn in game will be viable in surviving the 100% PvP environment. All of them require large amounts of "Tael" you only earn by either buying them from Snail itself, trading with players that have them (it's THE market currency), or earning them in very small amounts from a small group of in-game events (most of them require you have a VIP status, which is like $10 a month).

The ones you can only get through cash aren't even available through cash anymore. Only the "flavor of the month" newest set they made can be bought, then when the next skill set comes along it vanishes into the void, never to be gotten again.

They USED to have a system where you can buy gift boxes for "Jade Fragments" to trade for these older skills, but Snail took these out of the cash shop and only made them available through "Top-up" events (recent one was $300 real money to get 10 "Ding" (10,000) tael, some items, and 150 jade fragments in order to buy ONE whole complete skill).

The other way is to get the select skill sets in the "Jade Deity" edition sold here, but that's a gamble. You get only 2 skill sets out of the ones available, and you can get duplicates. Sure, you could try selling the duplicates, but some of them fell out of favor in game and no one will buy them in favor of newer sets. Do you REALLY want to gamble on $60? Didn't think so.

Speaking of the Top-Ups, they run those as often as they do maintainance, every weekend. Every time they bait players by hiding something cosmetic or a new skill set they're about to release behind the $300 option, just fishing for suckers, I mean, "players" to buy it.

Let's not get started on the ping. I've never seen a game where I was consistently above 200ms until this game. Would be great if that was just how the game was, but some people are living very close to the server or paying a 3rd party a subscription for lower pings (Like BattlePing) and having 30, 20, 10ms or less. This means if you get in a fight with ANYONE, they're probably gonna have A) A cash set you can't get anymore, B) EXTREMELY overgeared from buying silver taels from Snail, or C) Outping you so hard that you won't get a hit in.

If you hit the "Install" button even after reading this......You're a ♥♥♥♥♥, and Snail welcomes your wallet!

This is one of those games that has so much potential if only it had a few tweaks.

The Good:-Not your typical MMO mob fest grind as your key internal skills are learned over time (kind of similar to Eve's system) + daily training-PvP based game-The core gameplay is just plain fun. It is a mix of reaction, combos and skill.-So much diversity for combat sets - there is PvP balance between the starting schools (with some major BUTs)-Tons of stuff to do such as school wars, guild wars, script stealing events and other events-Crafting Mini games are pretty fun-The game as a TON of depth-Lore is awesome-You're a badass warrior in Ancient China

The Bad:-Probably one of the most extreme examples of Pay to Win that I've ever seen in an MMO, from start to finish, Snail games feels like they always have at least one of their hands in your pocket. There are guys in China that have spent upwards of $20,000 USD on this game-Ancient Sets (really only achieved through sheer luck and P2W) can completely ruin the game. 1 person with an ancient set can take on up to 10 people at a time (Ancient Tai Chi). To get these Ancient sets, only a few people on the server have them, and they've paid probably a few thousand USDs for them-You can bypass the Eve like skill system with enough RL $-Basic Cash Shop sets can run $60 and are generally a minimum requirement in PvP-This game is hard as hell to learn. Poor english translations and the tutorial is pretty confusing. Players from China have a massive advantage with the knowledge they can access. Heck, the wiki isn't even filled out in English and most Chinese players use their knowledge to their advantage.-Brutal Lag. Battleping / WTFast is pretty much a requirement.-If you fall behind, you can almost never catch up - the best way for new players is if a new server opens up. It is so hard to catch up to players (since there is always sometime to train and become more useful in PvP), even at 3 months old with regular play time, you can still be 1-2 shotted by year old Ancient set users.-RNJesus - anything and everything to do with gear/items/sets is so Random - weapon and armor rolling, gear drops, rare drops, event drops, with a tiny % being able to get what they want.

Avoid. It is games like these that could be so much more if they were subscription based w/o a cash shop. It completely ruins the experience. The sad thing is there is so much fundemental gameplay in AoW that they did a really good job on that you wish could be added to other MMOs to make them more fun.

i play this game in Chinese version, it is not bad. But the best RPG to play still is wow, this game can give you fresh feeling, the bad thing is you need to waste a lot of time to understand the language. I was so mad about there is no chinese setting choice.